Misophis
Originally summoned inside the Eternal Library as Broken Ingenuity and confined to a containment crystal, it was "liberated" by Twisted cultists searching for information on weak spots of Leviathan immediately before the Cataclysm. Those cultists made it as far as the hills north of the city before dying to the effects of the aether plague. The resulting amalgam entity spent the next 250 years mutating the local insect population, using the patterns of the dead cultists, into the Voiced.
It was destroyed in a showdown in early 254 AC with Three and a Half Women when the heroes used Apokalipsis successfully.
Goals
Due to its hybrid nature, it had three, not-entirely-aligned goals
- Get back into the Library and consume everything there. This was the primary goal of the broken concept itself, with its utter hatred for the concept of independent thought.
- Build a submarine to strike at a nearby song nexus, one of the choke-points for Leviathan's information flow. This was the primary goal of the cultists.
- Expand and consume everything. This came from the jotnar/aether plague itself.
Tactics and Capabilities
Its own power was very limited. It relied on slow psychic manipulations and brainwashing more than direct force. Its direct radius of influence was limited to about 1/4 of a mile, but it built a repeater of sorts to influence the dockyard (about 3/4 of a mile away). Mostly it relied on crafting the information sphere and breeding the Voiced to reject independent thought and willingly surrender their agency.
It had to allow the Queens some agency, since they had to solve problems that weren't always in range. This led to its downfall when the younger two queens proved to be capable of following logic.
